Abe Sokolov wrote:
I am going to make strong pleas against any moves to ban RK or marginalize him. While I’m not arguing that we tolerate his bad behavior in the short-run, it is crucial that we tolerate having to deal with, and act against, his bad behavior instance by instance in the long-run. To sum up my argument, RK’s bad behavior is an indispensable asset for Wikipedia.
We shouldn't be tolerating bad behavior at all. If we make the excuse that we have to tolerate it for the sake of content, that's just going to encourage more bad behavior. There are people who have some detailed knowledge of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, a generally neutral point of view, and a commitment to scholarly investigation, myself for instance, but I've generally avoided those articles because Wikipedia is not paying me enough to put up with constant abuse and name-calling by RK. How many other neutrals are not contributing because RK and others have turned that whole area of Wikipedia into a miniaturized version of real life?
Stan